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I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.
I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.
I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen.
Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to 'Godzilla' just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner.
Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.
I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.
You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.
I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.
I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out.
I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.
If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series.
If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'
We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'
Because I'm a former critic, I view criticism differently than most do. I can take criticism, but if you're going to eviscerate us, be specific.
I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'
When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.
Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we'd be looking at a spectacular car today.
A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.
I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'
We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.
We need to maybe think a little less about the science of building walls and that waste of time and energy and start to understand what is love.
Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.
I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.
It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.
I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.
I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.
I actually don't like saying 'lead character,' which is an interesting thing. If you say there's a lead, then there has to be someone to follow.
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.
Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.